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Dr. William "Bill" Gropp, Interim Director and Chief Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will become the center's fifth Director on July 16, 2017, pending Board of Trustees approval. Gropp was appointed to the roles of acting and

Luke OlsonLuke Olson has been named the next Director of Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Parallel Computing Institute, pending Board of Trustees approval. Olson is professor and associate head in the Department of Computer Science (CS) and a Willett Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering.

FROM HPCWIRE - About eight months ago Bill Gropp was elevated to acting director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is, of course, already highly accomplished. Development (with colleagues) of the MICH implementation of MPI is one example. He was NCSA’s chief scientist, a role

URBANA — The next time you pick up that supercomputer in your pocket, take a moment to consider its famous ancestor at the University of the Illinois.
The Illinois Automatic Computer, dubbed ILLIAC, went online in 1952, one of the first computers built with a design that is now ubiquitous in the computing world

CS Professor William "Bill" D. Gropp has been named the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for "highly influential contributions to the programmability of high performance parallel and distributed computers, and extraordinary service to the profession."